Kalipso Chalkidou

"As a result of the large reduction in US foreign assistance, Malawi faces...foreign exchange shortages as well as contractions in the services sectors of the economy expected to give rise to a GDP loss of $127m or 1% in 2025 with an additional 435,000 people falling below the

"countries with weak budget execution systems tend to allocate less of their budget to health, further constraining the sector’s financial capacity" https://t.co/M7JFAZO7j6

“With greater investment in health, innovation and financing, Africa can protect its people, unlock its potential and chart its own path to prosperity,” https://t.co/dNQfta3czb

Twelve years later, UHC is a tale of two realities: a small number of counties like Murang’a, where innovation, accountability, and political will are delivering tangible results; and the rest of the country, where patients still queue for hours only to be sent home with

If we had to really achieve the universal health coverage across the globe, we need to have some human resources who has the sufficient expertise on health policy, health finance, domestic resource mobilization, and public finance management, both on finance side and health

The African Development Bank is leading the development of a new framework to re-estimate Africa's GDP based on the proper valuation of its vast natural capital. This will lower Africa’s debt to re-estimated GDP and expand its ability to borrow more resources to finance its

"We need a whole new global health funding architecture, but we won’t be able to build it fast enough to avoid significant harm." https://t.co/Ip9a6dIWQR

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Governments should ensure the right to health by reducing reliance on regressive sources of financing like out-of-pocket costs and by increasing public revenues for health care through progressive taxes and reducing tax abuses https://t.co/aTN6W74gcW

"Universal health coverage is not just a health policy; it is also an economic policy. It’s a key of sustainable growth strategy," https://t.co/4UPBGF5Tuy

"...the digital transformation in healthcare offers a golden opportunity for lowering the cost of linking expenditure and health data at a more granular level and facilitating the generation of information that is greatly needed and has been lacking." https://t.co/RO0lcnqVng

Fiscal constraints in many low and middle-income countries make it imperative to use health funds efficiently and effectively to achieve universal health coverage. Yet, the information required for this is often unavailable to policymakers due to fragmented or inexistent data on

"It is shocking how foreign aid, which by definition should be catalytic, became a bedrock of health systems...and used to run parallel health programmes in the midst of less functional health systems..." https://t.co/R5NuBOixef

“Countries were expecting that US will be there forever. EU will be there forever. Gavi will be there forever. Global Fund will be there forever. World Bank will be there forever. We need to stop that,” said Kaseya. https://t.co/ltDKQrf2g9

"Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd and other mining companies will meet with the government on Wednesday to discuss how to address the gaps left by the funding withdrawal." https://t.co/LVuExusNOR

Africa CDC is "urging governments to pursue new strategies to address their health needs - including aggressive domestic resource mobilization and the introduction of health insurance - while also calling for the "optimal use" of limited resources and the curbing of corruption."

Long-standing ambivalence about the development sector also means that few prominent voices in the region wish to publicly mourn its loss, even if they privately acknowledge the significant role it has played in providing basic services. https://t.co/Zma9lYnYVU